98 ADVENTLRES IN SOUTH AFRICA 



On the afternoon of the 4th I deepened my hole and 

 watched the water. As the sun went down two grace- 

 ful springboks and a herd of pallah came and drank, 

 when I shot the best pallah in the troop. At night I 

 watched the water with Kleinboy : very soon a cow 

 black rhinoceros came and drank, and got off for the 

 present with two balls in hcj". A little afterward two 

 black rhinoceroses and two white ones came to the 

 water side. We both fired together at the finest of the 

 two black rhinoceroses; she ran three hundred yards 

 and fell dead. Soon after this the other black rhinoc- 

 eros came up again and stood at the water side ; I gave 

 her one ball after the shoulder ; she ran a hundred yards 

 and fell dead. In half an hour a third old borele ap- 

 peared, and, having inspected the two dead ones, came 

 up to the water side. We fired together; he ran two 

 hundred yards and fell dead. I felt satisfied with our 

 success, and gave it up for the night. 



By the following evening the natives had cleared 

 away the greater part of two of the rhinoceroses, which 

 lay right in the way of the game approaching the water ; 

 I, however, enforced their leaving the third rhinoceros, 

 which had fallen on the bare rising ground, almost op- 

 posite to my hiding-place, in the hope of attracting a 

 lion, as I intended to w-atch the water at night. Soon 

 after the twilight had died away, I went down to my 

 hole with Kleinboy and two natives, who lay concealed 

 in another hole, with Wolf and Boxer ready to slip in 

 the event of wounding a lion. 



On reaching the water I looked toward the carcass 

 of the rhinoceros, and, to ray astonishment, beheld the 

 ground alive with large creatures, as though a troop of 

 zebras were approaching the fountain to drink. Klein- 

 boy remarked to me that a troop of zebras were stand- 



